Professor Stephen Bax has proposed a partial decoding of the Voynich script http://bit.ly/1fwMI8e

Lessig on trolls: "There's a direct correlation between what I read and pain in my gut." (Remix, p. 65)

Lawrence Lessig Wins Fair Use Case http://zpr.io/tNZd

The only consumer relationship that an undergraduate in England has is with the Student Loans Company as a proxy for government.

The pedagogic space between a student and a teacher is not a consumer relation...

Brilliant letter to the Times Higher by @mgmcquillan http://bit.ly/1ftUGim

Debugging meTypeset using a git filesystem http://bit.ly/1ftVHRw #OA

"There's big money in philosophy, and I mean BIG money. You could even earn as much as some poets!" http://bit.ly/1ftpZUl

Triumph of the day was negotiating to provide real ale at the What Happens Now conference. This was not a hard sell to @RupertHildyard.

MathML support in the meTypeset typesetter http://bit.ly/1hpxfoR #OA

Another really enjoyable day where I wrote some code then gave a paper on Jennifer Egan.

Earliest hit for "freedom to starve" from Lenin's: Two Speeches at the First All-Russia Congress on Adult Education http://bit.ly/1evlhpb

Does anybody know the origin of the "American [ie liberal capital's] freedom is the freedom to starve" aphorism?

I kid you not.

Beall's response: "This suppression of individuality is emblematic of the intellectual decline of Western Europe."

Major Scientific Journal Publisher Requires Public Access To Data http://zpr.io/tanQ

Predatory Publishers: Not Just OA (and who loses out?) http://bit.ly/1h9pOma

Councils will be empowered [ie forced] to declutter [ie remove] public services. http://bit.ly/1cLsiWr

Some extremely Panglossian rhetoric from labour underway here: "Eye-watering cuts could make services more user friendly, says Labour"

This is my response to the 120 fake papers published by Springer and IEEE: http://bit.ly/1h9pOma

Predatory Publishers: Not Just OA (and who loses out?) http://bit.ly/NtvmNc #OA

Publishers withdraw over 120 fake papers - http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763 < quick, Science, run a piece on the predatory subscription publishers!

(I experienced peripheral vasculitis & neuropathy related to my rheumatoid arthritis: it was the most painful thing I've encountered)

Re. Harold Ramis: why not consider donating to Arthritis Research UK or Vasculitis UK? http://bit.ly/Our1dZ http://bit.ly/OuqYPf

Modularizing the meTypeset typesetter for the user interface phase http://bit.ly/1lfNwAD

I always liked Egon best.

Presentations on academic alienation, academic labour and academic activism http://zpr.io/tpHJ

Excursions Vol. 5 No. 1 “Boundaries” CFP Extended deadline: 10 March 2014 http://zpr.io/tpHi

Google Scholar will count a blog post as an article if it's cited: a preservation suggestion http://bit.ly/NkvZIV #OA

However, belittling legitimate concerns re. data privacy ("paranoid" "conspiracy") will not win the argument. Balance: yes; slanging: no.

Just a follow-up: I am convinced there could be huge benefits if care.data were rolled out for research purposes.

I usually quite like BG, but sometimes he can come across as overly sanctimonious in positioning himself as the Moderate Voice of Reason.

I thought Ben Goldacre said last week that the "insurers want medical records" stuff was just a conspiracy theory? http://bit.ly/1fw2zCb

Second http://zpr.io/tzMv

... and here's a very good response: http://bit.ly/1mB96kx

Jonathan Jones can't even get the basic facts of Wikipedia right: http://bit.ly/1mB8Zpc

Samuel Beckett: Roughs http://zpr.io/t7em

‘The university as a hackerspace’: Can interventions in teaching and learning drive university strategy? http://zpr.io/t7kQ

Updated my post on Google Scholar and blog preservation with an XML version, citation mockup and lens viewer http://bit.ly/MizBdB

Google Scholar will count a blog post as an article if it's cited: a preservation suggesstion http://bit.ly/NkvZIV #OA

Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration http://zpr.io/tRDL

Folk legend Richard Thompson on Thomas Pynchon http://richardthompson-music.com/decemberjanuary-richard-thompson-qa/

Doctorates and examiners http://zpr.io/tRqN

Report Says 11-Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux http://zpr.io/tRUa

Those lucky lucky folks on the mailing list for my project now get my "feature of the day" email for the typesetter. Today: table captions.

The university as a worker co-operative: Labour, property and pedagogy http://zpr.io/tHvE

Lisa Dwan on Beckett, Rehearsal, and Audience Responses http://zpr.io/tHe3

Small mouse in our kitchen retrieved bait from humane trap & closed lid w/out being caught. Discovered at 6am trip to park to release... Grr

When a journal sends a piece for review, asks for revisions, then sends next round to another reviewer who suggests different changes. That.

The design of academia . edu leaves much to be desired. That & the constant breakage: I now can't see/edit any papers w/out files.

Times Higher: "you've enjoyed reading 5 articles this month for free". Given that most HE news is apocalyptic that's a bit presumptuous.

Beckett and Pinter: Literary Memoirs http://zpr.io/tHaH

Washington University Special Collections: Travel Grant http://zpr.io/tHag

Publication: Pynchon and Wittgenstein: Ethics, Relativism and Philosophical Methodology http://bit.ly/1d3AzBy

See also http://bit.ly/1mtATTZ

Sceptical of rumours of Pynchon death: 1.) from fake DeLillo acc?; 2.) no evidence that DD & TP are "friends"; 3.) is that DD's grammar?

Slippery Slope http://zpr.io/tgkh

Just saw Young Vic prod. of Happy Days. Suitably intense w/ sonic apocalypse for Winnie's "bell". Pyrotechnics not quite up to National's...

Kerouac's On the Road followed on the road via Google Maps http://gu.com/p/3mzgm

Professor John Beck Inaugural lecture, March 5th http://zpr.io/gBqD

Modernism Now! International Conference 2014 http://zpr.io/gvPv

Nothing* more pleasing than making a Gantt chart.

* many things

Beckett Digital Manuscript Project: L'Innommable / The Unnamable http://zpr.io/g45W

Roland Barthes at 100: An International Centenary Conference http://zpr.io/g45B

Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.article

Bill Drummond announces world tour that will last until 2025 http://gu.com/p/3mmqk

I have just been convinced by @IanMulvany that lens is amazing and will be implementing this on @OrbitJournal ASAP!

Intro to Critical Theory: Frankfurt to Foucault (2014) http://zpr.io/gdG9

Papworth hospital's future in doubt after Treasury intervention http://gu.com/p/3mn8z

From earlier: an article I wrote on expertise and technology in the scholarly communications chain http://bit.ly/Mi3Q58

Whoever named the Lincoln-Hull varsity match "The Humber Games", I salute you.

Commercial publishers on the prowl looking to snap-up my scholar-run OA journals to impose APC model. Repeat of learned society outsourcing.

Roses are red...

Ruth Ozeki beats Thomas Pynchon to top Kitschie award http://gu.com/p/3mmvp

Publication: The Means of (Re-)Production: Expertise, Open Tools, Standards and Communication http://bit.ly/Mi3Q58 #openaccess

Samuel Beckett Summer School 2014 http://zpr.io/giFw

Why I am quitting the British Sociological Association http://zpr.io/giFD

Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules http://zpr.io/giF8

Adorno, Foucault and critique (2013) http://zpr.io/giF9

Frequent @OrbitJournal contributor @AlbertRolls1 writes for @berfrois on Inherent Vice, drugs and Dionysius http://www.berfrois.com/2014/02/albert-rolls-inherent-vices-two-directions/

BBC: "Young residents of Porthmadog in Gwynedd have said they were frightened by the loss of electricity caused by severe storms." #thenews

Running regression tests gets steadily more scary as the complexity of a piece of software develops.

This is brilliant news. Granta to publish @DrBlacklock's first novel. I suspect it will be superb. http://bit.ly/1fj132B

Cool it, Which? A degree is not a fridge http://bit.ly/1bqZMuR

some notes on academic co-option and exodus http://zpr.io/gL6a

Open Source — the Last Patent Defense? http://zpr.io/gkPt

For a co-operative university? http://zpr.io/g2vx

What's it like to publish in SAGE Open? http://bit.ly/1jvFPFU #OA #SAGE

Publication: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and Metafiction After the Millennium http://bit.ly/1jvB2Ed #David_Mitchell #Russell_Hoban

Bibliography of work on Foucault and education http://zpr.io/g2JC

Unbelievable: "A successful unionization campaign could significantly chip away at this flexibility and cost-savings" http://bit.ly/NBctZj

So, those cuts makes it look as though there won't be much awarded through REF anyway?

More Cuts to University Funding http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/more-cuts-to-university-funding/ < 18% cuts this year vs last.

[UPDATE] Symposium on David Mitchell (9 May 2014, London, UK) http://zpr.io/g2ww

Critical Perspectives on William H. Gass: The Novellas http://zpr.io/g2w8

Dear Tristram http://zpr.io/g2br

Also, all research council's that receive capital funding (ie NOT the AHRC) get a boost this year: http://bit.ly/1m284xG

A good piece from @wonkhe on the new funding provisions for UK HE: http://bit.ly/1m27kZn

Some materials from the CREATe workshop on open access that I attended last week http://bit.ly/1blxnpX

Ah, found it. It was Richard Smith in the BMJ last year http://bit.ly/1ePD12y

Remember reading phrase re the university "subcontracting out its hiring/promotion procedures to publishers". Can't now find it. Any ideas?

A Publication Taxonomy http://zpr.io/g2xD

HEFCE (REF2020), IR deposit and embargoes http://bit.ly/1dCeUjr

Roth: 'I have no desire to write fiction' http://zpr.io/griK

BBC News caption of the day "Charles Dickens at his desk: Not a laptop in sight"

I just wrote the word "impactful". It has come to this.

Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir? http://zpr.io/grEB

You can see the output that eprintsCV demonstrated at: http://bit.ly/oPxbC5

Just committed a change to my eprintsCV script to fix the missing issues bug: http://bit.ly/1njejZo

UK Police Will Have Backdoor Access To Health Records http://zpr.io/grZ7

Conference: Co-operation and Higher Education, April 26th, Lincoln http://zpr.io/grUi

If they've nothing to hide, they've nothing to fear http://zpr.io/grU5

Performing Pina Bausch's 1980 - in her dancers' words http://gu.com/p/3mh9g

Royal Mail privatised for up to £1.5bn less than City estimates of its value http://gu.com/p/3mh4e < more asset stripping.

(re)Reading Wallace after Wallace; 1st Annual DFW Conference, May 23, 2014 Bloomington-Normal http://zpr.io/gSSn

Discipline, Punish, Examine and Produce: Foucault’s La société punitive (2014) http://zpr.io/gSCa

Skinny Puppy Wants Compensation For Music Used in US Interrogations http://zpr.io/gSw5

Resource: Academics Launch Torrent Site to Share Papers and Datasets http://zpr.io/gSwn

Repenser Foucault (2013) http://zpr.io/gSpg

Stage-managed PMQs? The problems go deeper than that http://gu.com/p/3mfjf < excellent piece

Governance & the political economy of English HE by @amcgettigan - http://andrewmcgettigan.org/2014/02/05/governance-the-political-economy-of-english-he/

Male, Mad and Muddleheaded: Academics in Children's Picture Books http://zpr.io/gS6Y

it would be very nice if SAGE were to publish my article on Russell Hoban today (as it's his birthday), but think it unlikely. #SAGEOpen

Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know (2014) http://zpr.io/gFUp

Met one of my academic heroes today - John Willinsky, founder of the Public Knowledge Project, Prof of Education, intellectual historian.

"Nick de Bois said "so what" if the party is packing public bodies with supporters." < grim. This is my MP. http://gu.com/p/3mdvb

On the context and use-value of academic labour http://zpr.io/g3kh

Pete Seeger and the NSA http://zpr.io/g3km

Deleuze / Foucault: A Neoliberal Diagram (2013) http://zpr.io/g3kM

Few things fill me with tech dread more than automated unpingable defect warnings on my dedicated server. Hard reboot, I salute you.

Michel Foucault and “the problem of war”, (2014) http://zpr.io/g3xv

David Cameron Says Fictional Crime Proves Why Snooper's Charter Is Necessary http://zpr.io/g3x4

Seven ways Microsoft Excel could change the world http://gu.com/p/3m9t3 < tongue in cheek, but you can do all these with LibreOffice calc..

Beta Test Zotero http://zpr.io/g3Xj

Outgoing Ofsted chair: PM appointing Tory supporters to public bodies http://gu.com/p/3mcdp

Note to self: use fewer proper nouns in next book to reduce indexing labour.

Praise for Lisa Dwan's Samuel Beckett Trilogy http://zpr.io/g3ZL

Michel Foucault: auteur, lecteur, archiviste. Une exposition-dossier à l’université Lille 3 en mars 2014 http://zpr.io/g3Zk